Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:16:58 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> Cc: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>, imp@village.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mgessner@aristar.com Subject: Re: talk and talkd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961218110208.14853B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199612170110.XAA02226@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > #define quoting(Jamie Bowden) > // On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > // > // > In message <199612161855.QAA26056@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Joao Carlos Mendes Luis writes: > // > : I'd like to use something text-oriented. The default inetd.conf mentions > // > : a /usr/old/talkd, but I could not find any reference about it. Does it > // > : really exists ? > // > // > even if you had old/talkd (which may be on one of the Lite CDs), it > // > wouldn't help you talk to suns. Unless your compiler pads things > // > exactly the same way as the sun compiler, it won't work :-(. > // > // Fortunately, most suns have standard ntalkd put on them by their admins. > // At least, all the ones I admin'd ended up with it on them. Most of the > // other sun admins I know did/do the same. > > Yup, but my problem is when my users want to talk with someone on a Sun > system which does not have such a good manager. :) Then you are fried. Unless you can make ytalk work. > > Since we can't change all Sun system in world, let's try to make our > system at least able to talk with them. > > I've not yet taken a look at ytalk, but if the other side needs to use > ytalk also, does not solve my problem. I have tried making talking to a Sun possible with ytalk. I did not succeed :-( And yes, there was neither ntalk nor ytalk on the Sun. Sander > > // > // Jamie Bowden > // > // Network Administrator, TBI Ltd. > // > > > Jonny > > -- > Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br > +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br > Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI > Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro >
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